| Fathers Playing Catch with Sons Contributor(s): Hall, Donald (Author) |
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ISBN: 0865471681 ISBN-13: 9780865471689 Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1984 Annotation: In the pantheon of great sports literature, not a few poets have tried their hand at paying tribute to their love affair with the game -- Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams among them. This elegant volume collects Donald Hall's prose about sports, concentrating on baseball but extending to basketball, football and Ping-Pong. The essays are a wonderful mixture of reminiscence and observation, of baseball and of fathers and sons, of how a game binds people together and bridges generations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Essays - Literary Collections | Essays - Sports & Recreation | Baseball - General |
| Dewey: 814.54 |
| LCCN: 84060689 |
| Series: Fathers Playing Catch with Sons PR |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 5.52" W x 8.22" (0.53 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the pantheon of great sports literature, not a few poets have tried their hand at paying tribute to their love affair with the game -- Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams among them. This elegant volume collects Donald Hall's prose about sports, concentrating on baseball but extending to basketball, football and Ping-Pong. The essays are a wonderful mixture of reminiscence and observation, of baseball and of fathers and sons, of how a game binds people together and bridges generations. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hall, Donald: - Best known as a poet, Donald Hall lives by freelance writing on his New Hampshire farm. In addition to his many books of poetry, he has published short stories, collections of essays, and children's books. |